The security situation in eastern DRC
is still precarious. In addition an outbreak of Ebola has been confirmed
in the province of Kasaï Occidental, health zone of Mweka. The cholera
outbreak in Zimbabwe is not yet under control. The outbreak has spread
in the Southern African countries. WHO and partners continue to support
efforts aimed at information sharing from affected border districts, strengthening
surveillance, as well as for resource mobilization.

The security situation in eastern DRC
remains precarious with humanitarian aid still not reaching many people.
The cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe is not yet under control. The outbreak
has spread in the Southern African countries. WHO and partners continue
to support efforts aimed at information sharing from affected border districts,
strengthening surveillance, as well as for resource mobilization.

Countries Situations

Acute Crises

- Angola: The cholera outbreak
is still of high concern. On week 50, a total of 131 new cases and 1 death
were reported.

The situation in DRC is still unstable
with humanitarian aid not reaching many people. The cholera outbreak in
Zimbabwe is still out of control. The outbreak is spreading in the Southern
African countries. WHO and partners continue to support efforts aimed at
information sharing from affected border districts, strengthening surveillance,
as well as for resource mobilization.

Countries Situations

Acute Crises

- Angola: The cholera outbreak
is of high concern as the possibility of spreading to all the Country is
becoming real.

In December 2006, the 2nd meeting of
the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) was held
in Nairobi, with 11 countries taking part (Angola, Kenya, Uganda, CAR,
Congo, Tanzania, Sudan, Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda and DRC). The Conference
concluded with the signature of a "Pact on Security, Stability and
Development in the Great Lakes Region", which included the creation
of a "Special Fund for Reconstruction and Development" and establishing
a Secretariat based in Bujumbura.

Fighting in eastern DRC and the humanitarian
situation in Zimbabwe continue to focus the attention of the humanitarian
community. The cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe is spreading in the Southern
African countries raising a big concern about its regional dimension.

Fighting in eastern DRC and the humanitarian
situation in Zimbabwe continue to focus the attention of the international
and humanitarian community. Other Political crises leading to insecurity,
displacement of populations in some countries are still on-going. Diseases
outbreaks continue to strike several countries.

Countries Situations

Acute Crises

- CAR: High concern over security
situation in many areas continues especially in the Northwest in view of
the approaching date for the beginning of the Global and Inclusive Peace
Dialogue of 5th of December 2008.

The attention of international and humanitarian
community is still focused on the humanitarian situation in the eastern
DRC where about 1.6 million people are displaced. The upsurge of cholera
outbreak in Zimbabwe is also of high concern in an environment disrupted
by a chronic humanitarian crisis.

The humanitarian situation of about 1.6
million people displaced in the eastern DRC is still of high concern because
despite ongoing diplomatic talks, fighting continues. Killing of civilians
and recruitment of child soldiers are now reported by UN peacekeepers.

Countries Situations

Acute Crises

- CAR: High concern over security
situation in many areas. An unidentified armed group attacked a village
of Ouamba in the South-west. This situation led to population displacement
not yet quantified.

Problem Statement/Context: The
Asia Pacific region has an emergency profile characterized by a combination
of natural disasters, civil/political unrest with pockets of conflict situations,
and recent emerging new global threats such as high food and fuel prices
crisis, the threat of pandemic influenza and other emerging diseases.

- World cereal production in 2008 is
forecast to increase 4.9 percent to a record 2 232 million tonnes, considerably
up from earlier predictions after better than expected results from the
major harvests gathered in the past two months.

- Based on the latest production forecast,
a significant improvement in the global supply and demand balance for cereals
in the 2008/09 season can be expected.

This annual report describes bilateral development cooperation between Norway and 30 of the countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East that received the most assistance in 2007. Norwegian development assistance totalled NOK 21.8 billion in 2007. Of this amount, bilateral assistance (including multi-bilateral assistance) accounted for NOK 15.7 billion.

Since the worsening of the displacement
crisis in North Kivu in late August 2007, UNHCR has sent a several emergency
teams and launched a camp coordination and camp management (CCCM) coordination
group under which manage 15 sites.

When the World Bank published Rolling
Back Malaria: The World Bank Global Strategy and Booster Program in 2005,
the world had what now seems like a modest goal of halving malaria deaths
in Africa by 2010. At the time, many thought that target unrealistic and
doubted the commitment of both African and global partners to achieving
it. Since then, an influx of new funding, new partners, and remarkable
successes in several Sub- Saharan African countries have re energized the
global malaria control movement.